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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

— Olivier Roy

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Florent Schaeffer

Florent Schaeffer is the coordinator of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly network and a member of the Chechnya Committee in Paris.

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'Another Europe': the second European Social Forum

The energy and scale, the international and human presence of the second European Social Forum in Paris reveal its already strong foundations. But its real tests are still to come.

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